Strong opinions, weakly held

A federal judge has ruled that the Los Angeles Police Department can be sued under the RICO statute, which was initially created to allow the government to more harshly punish organized crime organizations. Of course, since RICO was instituted, the government has used it to abuse all sorts of people, whether they have ties to organized crime or not. It’s nice to see the legal equivalent of reductio ad absurdum at the expense of the corrupt LAPD.